Re: [fedora-virt] how to active XEN on Fedora 12
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:23:37PM +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: > Thanks Boris, I use F12 on my Laptop and I want run some VM for test new > version of distro. KVM is generally better for laptops because of better power management. However ... > Now I use qemu-kvm but each machine use 30/40% of CPU of host system. Is KVM enabled? $ /sbin/lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 48184 6 kvm 163952 1 kvm_intel You should see a kvm_* module. Does your laptop support hardware virtualization? Recent hardware has much better support than the first generation of hardware. Is it enabled in the laptop BIOS? > I want use XEN to see if it works better... [...] > then I'm looking for some thing to do after this Basically Fedora 12 doesn't support Xen as a host. Too bad, but this is because upstream Xen people didn't get their changes into the Linux kernel yet. Your options are to go back to something out of date and unsupported (Fedora 8 IIRC was the last version of Fedora that could be used as a Xen host). Or use KVM -- see above. Or use RHEL 5 or a derivative where an older version of Xen is fully supported. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Got Windows guests?
Hello fellow Fedora, libvirt and libguestfs users,
If you have any Windows guests, then you can help Fedora to support
Windows guests better by spending a few minutes testing the Windows
Registry feature we just added to libguestfs 1.0.75.
You will need:
- A Windows NT/200x/XP/Vista/7/... guest
- Fedora 12 or Fedora Rawhide host
- libguestfs-tools >= 1.0.75
(from updates or
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391
)
- a few minutes of your time
The tests:
(1) Run the virt-win-reg commands shown in the following web page,
where "MyWinGuest" should be replaced with the name of the Windows
guest as known to libvirt:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-win-reg.1.html#examples
Do the commands run without any errors?
Does the output look sensible?
If you have several Windows guests, please try as many different
sorts as possible!
(2) Download the registry binary files and try to convert them to XML:
guestfish -i MyWinGuest --ro <<'EOF'
download win:\windows\system32\config\software software
download win:\windows\system32\config\system system
download win:\windows\system32\config\sam sam
download win:\windows\system32\config\security security
EOF
hivexml software > software.xml
hivexml system > system.xml
hivexml sam > sam.xml
hivexml security > security.xml
Do those commands run without error?
If there's an error, try adding the hivexml -k option.
Does the XML look complete? (Try running the XML through
tidy -xml -indent -quiet < foo.xml | less
)
I hope you don't find any bugs, but if you do:
Send a reply to this message, or report a bug in Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
It's useful to include the following details:
HIVEX_DEBUG=1 hivexml regfile 2>&1 > log.out
The Registry file itself that is failing (but note that Registry
files can contain sensitive data).
It's also useful to have positive feedback ("it worked!").
Thanks for any testing you can give, and if you have any other
suggestions for handling Windows guests from Fedora, please let me
know.
Rich.
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virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
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Re: question on using febootstrap
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:11:22AM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: > Many thanks! My question is how do I get to a LiveCD from here? I have no idea. Better go back to whoever told you to use febootstrap in the first place. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: question on using febootstrap
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:00:59AM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: > Failed: > filesystem.x86_64 0:2.4.21-1.fc11 > Complete! This is OK. It's caused because rpm tries to create /proc, and fakechroot doesn't catch the write and redirect it into the chroot. However failure to create this directory doesn't actually matter. > Not sure what the filesystem failure is supposed to mean. > > Also, where should I put the kickstart file, or its equivalent? If > equivalent, then what is it? febootstrap doesn't support kickstart files. If you want to add that, patches are welcomed, and would be an excellent feature. > Then, regardless, I tried: > > $ febootstrap-to-initramfs ./f11 > initrd.img > 745468 blocks > > > I am little lost as to what I should do after this point to get to a LiveCD. > Could you please make suggestions? Not sure what else you're trying to do. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:09:04PM -0500, Jim wrote: > FC 10/KDE > what is the best Virtualization program for FC10, to run Windows XP in. > I understand because my AMD Athlon doesn't have a "svm" feature I can't > run KVM, and VM Ware is slow ? There's no good solution. You will be able to run qemu, in software emulation mode. Depending on how fast your processor is, and how CPU intensive your Windows session is, it'll be either acceptably slow or very slow indeed. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: FC10, Virtualization , Windows XP
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:54:47AM +, M A Young wrote: > But they aren't all as slow as vmware, nor is hardware virtualization > required for a faster solution, for example Xen does very well without > needing hardware support. Xen can't virtualize Windows without hardware support. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:46:38PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:24:45 + > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Is there a reason you want to chainload them (except for Windows of > > course)? > > I don't care about chainloading so much, but I want them all to > have independently owned and operated /boot partitions so I don't > have to fool with manually fiddling with the entries in a shared > /boot partition after updates and wot-not. > > >From what I'm reading I can't have a /boot partition in an LVM, > so I can't have enough "real" boot partitions to pair with my > LVM roots (you can put a lot of roots on a 500GB drive :-). > > I'd be happy to be mistaken about all that though. You can't have a boot partition on LVM, _but_ you can share a single boot partition between [certainly Fedora, RHEL and CentOS] guests. You have to manually aggregate your grub.conf file, and make sure it is saved somewhere else between each install (because installs overwrite grub.conf), but other than there is no problem. In fact, if only there was a "grub.conf.d", you wouldn't even have to do that ... An idea for Anaconda perhaps ... You also have to make sure your /boot partition is large enough, given that it will be holding 6x its normal number of kernels. This is how I have set up several machines, and it works fine. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Booting a gazillion linuxes?
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:46:30PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > Any recommendations for the best way to organize a big > old disk chock full of different versions of linux so I > can boot different ones? > > For just a few linux versions, I've used a stand alone > grub and chainloaded different partitions which, in turn, > have their own grub. > > With enough different linux versions installed, I'll have to > use LVMs instead of extended partitions, and it occurs to me > that I have no idea if grub can be pointed at an LVM to > chainload the linux there (I certainly don't see anything in > the grub info file that mentions lvm or any syntax that > might be used to reference one). I do this - perhaps not gazillions, but 5 or 6 different versions of Linux + a Windows partition. /dev/sda1 Windows /dev/sda2 Shared Linux /boot /dev/sda3 Shared Linux swap /dev/sda4 Linux PV containing all Linux root fs's I use LVM for the Linux rootfs's, and I just have grub boot them directly. Is there a reason you want to chainload them (except for Windows of course)? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Fedora Classroom talk: Using the Windows cross-compiler
Date: Sunday, 8th March 2009 Time: 18:15 UTC [1] Location: Virtual -- #fedora-classroom on irc.freenode.net Details:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom#The_Current_Timeline Background: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compiler IRC help: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo A talk and interactive session, "Using the Windows cross-compiler": - API basics: POSIX, libc, Win32, gtk, Qt, etc. - Cross-compiler basics - Practical demonstration: setting up the cross-compiler in Fedora compiling a small Gtk program testing it in Wine building a Windows installer - Future directions (Win64, Mac OS X ?) - How to get involved If you have root access to a Fedora 10 or rawhide install (i386 or x86-64 only) you can follow along with the practical part. Rich. [1] For times around the world, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=8&month=3&year=2009&hour=18&min=15&sec=0&p1=0 -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
